New Developement that will Improve Your Diagnostic Skills

(Including: 3D diastology, Intraoperative Echo, Contrast, Stress, Congenital and Cardiac Resynchronization)

General Information

Program Objectives

This Course will provide physician and sonographer at all levels practical knowledge and application of color flow Doppler, two-dimensional, transesophageal, 3D and  stress echocardiographic techniques which can be utilized in everyday application as well as  future applications of echocardiography. At the end of the course, every participant should have improved skills in the use of echocardiography techniques for the appropriate diagnosis and treatment of common cardiac conditions.

At the conclusion of this activity, participants will be able to:

• Discuss case examples of diastology, valve regurgitation, valve stenosis and chamber quantification and recognize how they pertain to the corresponding ASE guidelines
• Describe the role of echocardiography in the operating room, EP lab and cath lab
• Explain the appropriate uses of novel echo techniques such as 3D echo, strain/ strain rate, speckle tracking, contrast echo
• Recognize basic and advanced echocardiographic principles and apply them to patient cases

Program Description

Principles of echocardiography will be reviewed and advances will be demonstrated through lectures and case studies. Participants will be exposed to all aspects of basic and advanced echocardiography. Morning sessions will be devoted to state-of-the art lectures on advances in echocardiography and specific application to the following states:

1. Heart Failure
2. Valvular Heart Disease
3. Interventional  Cardiology
4. Cardiac Surgery
5. Electrophysiology
6. Coronary Artery Disease

The following aspects of echocardiography will be recovered:

• 2D echocardiography
• Stress echocardiography
• Spectral and color Doppler
• Contrast echocardiography
• Transesophageal echocardiography
• Tissue Doppler, strain /strain rate
• 3D echocardiography
• Congenital heart disease

Case studies will be interspersed throughout each of the lectures to emphasize the importance and clinical utility of each technique discussed.

Small Group Sessions

In each of the small group sessions, a topic will be presented in detail by the instructor to a small group.  The case studies will emphasize different topics in echocardiography (Contrast, Stress Echo, Heart Failure, Valvular heart disease and Congenital).
Through the use of the small group format, all participants (both physicians and sonographers) will have the opportunity to interact to improved skills in obtaining good data to ensure complete, correct diagnostic studies in patients coming through the clinical laboratories.

Target Audience/ Prerequisites

The targeted audience is cardiology physicians, echocardiographers, internal medicine physicians with a specialty in echocardiography, anesthesiologists and surgeons who have a need for echo expertise, cardiac sonographers, and nurses. A  minimum of three months experience in echocardiography and knowledge of basic transesophageal anatomy and physiology of the heart is required. Experience in Doppler Echo would be advantageous, but is not required.

Conference Location

The program will be held in the conference center located in the third floor of the West New York Campus at 5918 Bergenline Ave, West New York, NJ 07093.

Accreditation

The American Training School for Medical Professionals is accredited by the accreditation council for Continuing Medical education to provide continuing medical education for physicians.

Designation

The American Training School for Medical Professionals designates this educational activity for a maximum of 24.25 AMA PRA  Category 1 Credits.  Physicians should only claim credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.  Both the ARDMS and CCI accept AMA PRA category 1 Credit.

Refunds

$50.00 shall be retained to cover administrative expenses should you cancel your registration for any reason.  In order to refund the balance, we must receive WRITTEN notice of withdrawal by December 5,2009.  No refunds will be issued thereafter.

Faculty Disclosure

American Training  School for Medical Professionals requires courses directors, speakers, instructors, planners and other individuals who are in  a position to control the content of this activity to disclose any real or apparent conflict of interest they may have as related to the content of this activity.  The  faculty disclosures and the discussion of  off-label usage will be indicated in the course syllabus.

Special Needs

American Training School fully intends to comply with the legal requirements of the American with Disabilities Act. If any participant of this conference is in need of accommodation please indicate those needs on the registration form or submit written requests to the office at least one month prior to the conference date.

Faculty

• Saroja Bharati, MD. The Heart Institute for Children Maurice Lev Congenital Heart and Conduction System Center Professor of Pathology Rush Medical College Chicago, Illinois
• Judy W. Hung, MD, FASE Asst. Professor of Medicine Harvard Medical School
• Bijoy Khandheria, MD, FASE, FESC, FACP, FACC Professor of Medicine Past President, American Society of Echocardiography

Program Directors

• Kameswari Maganti, MD, FASE Asst. Professor of Medicine
• David J. Mehlman, MD, FASE Assoc. Professor of Medicine
• Issam Mikati, MD, FASE Assoc. Professor of Medicine
• Vera H. Rigolin, MD, FASE Assoc. Professor of Medicine

Technical Director

Michael a. McNeal, RDCS

Technical Coordinator

• Bonnie Kane, RDCS, FASE

• Nausheen Akhter, MD Instructor in Medicine
• Robert O. Bonow, MD Distinguished Professor of Medicine
• James Carr, MD Assoc. Professor of Radiology
• Charles J. Davidson, MD Professor of Medicine
• R. Andrew de Freitas, MD Asst. Professor of Pediatrics
• Stephen R. Devries, MD, FASE Assoc. Professor of Medicine
• Nina Gotteiner, MD, FASE Assoc. Professor of Pediatrics
• Nancy Gracin, MD
• Asst. Professor of Medicine
• Jason Jacobson, MD Asst. Professor of Medicine
• David Lieb, MD, FASE Asst. Professor of Medicine Northwestern Memorial
• Dean Augustine, RDCS Leighton Brady, RDCS
• Brian Fey, RDCS
• Robyn Goldman, RDCS
• Denise Henry, CCI
• Bonnie Kane, RDCS, FASE
• Michael A. McNeal, RDCS
• Patrick M. McCarthy, MD Professor of Surgery,
• Veronica McCloskey, MD Asst. Professor of Medicine
• Marla Mendelson, MD Assoc. Professor of Medicine
• Kofo Ogunyankin, MD, FASE Asst. Professor of Medicine
• William H. Pearce, MD Professor of Surgery Chief of Vascular Surgery
• Jyothy J. Puthumana, MD Asst. Professor of Medicine
• Sanjiv J. Shah, MD Asst. Professor of Medicine
• Robert A. Silverberg, MD Assoc. Professor of Medicine
• Patricia Vassallo, MD Asst. Professor of Medicine
• Qiong (Joan) Zhao, MD, PhD Asst. Professor of Medicine Hospital Faculty
• Mary Paul, RDCS
• Mansoor Peerbhai, RDCS, RVT
• Shelley Sarson, RDCS
• Anthony Shorter, RDCS
• Inga Vaitenas, CCI
• Sarah Wolper, RDCS

Program Coordinators

• Sharon Baruch, B.MSc
• Germaine Nichter

Fees